Handling request headers isn’t a use case that comes to mind immediately when thinking through the development process of your app. You might think of routes, requests, appropriate responses and the design of your views. And at some point, you’re in a more advanced development stage and see …

Node.js developers are very familiar with the callback pattern. During the last years, a common practice has taken place within the community: error-first callbacks. That was quite sufficient for the last years. Now that promises and generator functions are around the corner, it’s time to start thinking outside …

In an earlier published tutorial, we’ve touched the topic of filtering documents by fields of nested objects using Thinky. With the native support of joins in RethinkDB, you’re able to structure your documents with relations between individual Thinky models. That means, splitting up your nested objects into separate …

Within the last months we’ve been adding and changing functionality on our homepage to create a comprehensive learning platform. What started out as a blog grew rapidly to a place where you could find solutions for your Android and Node.js problems. And that’s the reason we follow …

Within previous tutorials throughout this hapi series, you’ve seen a lot functionality related to the server itself, requests and authentication. This guide is the first one geared towards responses and precisely shows you how to set the response status code that follows the RFC. Before diving into the details, …

Within last week’s tutorial you’ve learned how to access the request payload in hapi. Because you should never, ever trust provided data submitted by users, a common process is to validate the request payload against a given rule set. hapi streamlines this procedure and integrates a validation process …

Up to this point, you’ve mastered 14 tutorials on hapi in this beginner series. Finally, we’re arriving at the point where you’re gonna handle and make use of large data sets arriving at your server. Actually, it doesn’t need to be a large data set that …

Last week’s tutorial on hapi walked you through optional path parameters and showed you how to specify routes leveraging optional parameters in their path. Within this week’s guide you’ll learn about route definitions using wildcard path parameters to match routes with multiple segments. Before diving into the …